Charles Kettering Quotes

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Charles Kettering

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• To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Twitter

• You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Support
  • Always
  • Might

• The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Worst
  • Cry

• I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Imagination

• I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Together

• If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • People
  • Know
  • Government

• It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Always
  • Picture
  • Independent

• I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Hollywood
  • Paparazzi

• I just like being on stage and making people happy.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • People
  • Happy
  • Stage

• Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Words
  • Born

• I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Acting
  • Young
  • Student

• We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Fall

• Most wars are not won in a single battle, what I’m looking forward to is changing the course this country is on. I don’t know if that happens in this election cycle or not.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Single

• Indian film awards lack credibility.

  

  Aamir Khan

• There were…smiles of encouragement for Lydgate, and some smiles of sweet pity as well, as for the only leper present.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Present
  • Sweet

• Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Black
  • Ambition
  • Chinese

• If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?

  

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • Education
  • Generation
  • Paid

• The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

  

  Eric Church

• Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.

  

  Barbara Park
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

  

  Charles Kettering